UNIT 10: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
I. Focus of skill knowledge:
1. Topic: Life on other planets.
2. Competences:
- Talking about possibility.
- Seeking information . - Write an exposition.
3. Skills:
- Speaking: Talk about assumptions.
Talk about possibility.
Name and describe natural disasters.
- Listening: Listen to momologues/ dialogues within 100- 120 words for general or specific information.
- Reading: Read passages within 150-180 words for general or detailedd information.
- Writing: Write a story an exposition within 80-100 based on picture/word cues or prompts.
4. Grammar:
- Conditional sentence type 1.
- Conditional sentence type 2.
- May&might for possibility.
5. Vocabulary:
- Words to talk about life on other planets.
- Words to describe UFOs and other alien events on the earth and other planets.
II. Unit plan:
Period 1: Getting started- Listen and read Period 2: Speak (a+b)
Period 3: Listen Period 4: Read (b) Period 5: Write
Period 6: Language focus
Date of preparing: 26/4/2021 Period 62
UNIT 10: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS Lesson 1: Getting started + Listen and read
A. Objectives:
1. Aims:
- At the end of the lesson ss will be able to read a text about UFOs for details to complete the notes.
2. Practice skills:
- Reading skill
3. The knowledge needs to get:
+ Standard knowledge: Read a text for details about some UFOs + Advanced knowledge: Write about UFO sightings
4. Basic language:
Tense: present perfect, present simple and past simple tense.
Vocabulary: spacecraft, meteor, evidence, alien , capture, device, claim.
5. Attitude:
- Educate ss to have good consciousness in order to study in class and reading a text about UFOs for details to complete the notes.
B. Teaching aids :
Textbook, Lesson plan , pictures C. Methods :
- Model- talk- practice, individual work , pair work . - Techniques: ROR, gap fill, Discussion, write it up D. Procedure :
I. Organization (1') - Greetings : Good morning everybody - Who's absent today ?
Class Date of teaching Absent students
9A 26/4/2021
9B 26/4/2021
II. Warm up: (3’)
Teacher’s activities Ss’activities
* Getting started:
- Show the picture on page 83 to the students and ask them some questions about UFOs
* What can you see in the pictures?
* What do we call them in Vietnamese?
* Do you know another word for UFOs?
(flying saucer)
* Do you thing they really exist?
* Have you ever seen any films on UFOs?
* Do you want to see a UFO? What do you want to know about UFOs?
* If you saw an UFOs, what would you do?
- Answer the questions
- Strange things - UFOs
- Y/ N - Y/N - Y/ N - Y/N Ss' answers
III. New lesson:
Teacher’s activities Ss’activities
I. Pre- reading:
1. Pre- teach vocab (6')
- Elicit from ss and give the words Translation
Translation Translation Translation Translation
- Listen, guess, repeat and copy - spacecraft (n): tàu vũ trụ - meteor (n): sao băng - evidence (n): bằng chứng
- alien (n): người ngoài hành tinh khác - capture (v): bắt
Translation Translation
- Guide ss to read the words
* Checking vocabulary: ROR b. Prediction: matching (3’)
- Ask ss to close the books and match words with their explanations.
1. proof, support
2. falling star or shooting star 3. unknown/strange people or thing 4. bringing together or gathering 5. caught as a prisoner
6. became impossible to see a. meteor
b. disappear c. evidence d. aliens f. collecting g. capture - Give feeback
2. While- reading: p83-84( 20’)
- Ask ss to open the books, read the passage and check their prediction
- Give feedback
- device (n): dụng cụ, thiết bị - claim (v): tuyên bố
Listen, repeat Read individually
- work in pairs
1. a/ b..
2. c/d…
3. a/e…
4. f…
5. g/a…
6. b…
- Work individually
1. c 2. a
* Complete the notes: p84
- Have students read the passage again and do exercise 2b on page 84
- Give feedback
3. d 4. f 5. g 6. b
- Work in pairs
* Answer keys:
UFO Sightings:
a) An aircraft , a weather balloon or a meteor can be mistaken for a alien spacecraft
b) In 1947, a pilot saw nine large round objects traveling at about 2.800 meters an hours.
c) There were over 1.500 UFO sightings worldwide in 1952
d) In 1954, a woman and her children saw a UFO above their house.
e) A farmer saw an egg- shaped object in one of his fields and also aliens collecting soil samples in 1964.
f) In 1971, two men claimed they were captured by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft.
g) A pilot and his plane disappeared after sighting an UFO in 1978.
h) In 1981, a Frenchman reported that he saw a plate – like device at a treetop 30 meters away from his garden.
- Group work ( ss' ideas )
3. Post-reading:
a. Discussion:(5’)
- Have the whole class discuss the topic
“UFOs”
- Choose good students to be the leader.
- Get the leader to make a summary of the evidence of the existence of UFOs and then discuss with his/ her friends.
- Give the leader some questions for him/her to ask his/ her friends.
a. Do you believe in Kenneth Arnold, or the woman who saw a UFO above her house?
b. Have you ever seen a picture of an alien?
c. Can you imagine what the aliens are like?
d. Are they small or big?
e. Are they intelligent? (If yes) Why do you think so?
b. Write it up:(5’)
- Have students write the notes on page 84 in their notebook.
- Work individually- > share compare- >
ss' correction
IV. Summary: (1')
- Ask Ss to remind the lessson : Read a text about UFOs for details to complete the notes.
V. Homework: (1')
- Be sure to revise the lesson. Prepare Unit 10 lesson 2: Speak
* Evaluation:
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Date of preparing: 22/4/2021 Period 63
UNIT 10: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS Lesson 2: Speak
A. Objectives:
1. Aims : At the end of the lesson ss will be able to - Talk about the things that might be on Mars.
2. Practice skills: - speaking skill 3. The knowledge needs to get:
+ Advanced knowdge: write dialogues + Practice skills: - speaking skill 4. Basic language :
+ Tense: present simple tense.
+ Vocabulary: Mars, microorganism,gemstone , sparkling, creature, trace, mineral, precious.
5. Attitude: Educate ss to have good consciousness in order to study in class and talk about the things that might be on Mars.
B. Teaching aids :
Textbook , Lesson plan, pictures C. Methods :
- Model- talk- practice, individual work, pair work.
- Techniques: slap the board, write it up, ROR,matching, picture drill D.Procedure :
I. Organization (1') - Greetings: Good morning everybody - Who's absent today?
Class Date of teaching Absent students 9A
II. Warm up: (3’)
Teacher’s activities Ss’activities
* Slap the board:
- guide ss to play the game
- play the game in two groups
Planet, alien, evidence,meteor,capture
III. New lesson:
Teacher’s activities Ss’activities
1. Pre- speaking: 10’
a. Pre- teach vocab:
- Elicit from ss and give the words (Translation)
(Translation) (Translation)
- Listen, guess, repeat and copy - mars(n) sao Hỏa, hỏa tinh - microorganism(n): vi sinh vật - gemstone(n): đá quý
(Translation) (Translation) (Translation) (Translation) (Translation)
- Guide ss to read the words
* Checking vocabulary: ROR
- Rub out the new word one at a time. Each time you rub out the word in English, point to the Vietnamese translation and ask students to repeat in English. When all the English words are rubbed out go through the Vietnamese list and get the whole class to call out the English words.
b. Matching:
- Set the scene: A space tourist traveled to Mars, he saw many things there and noted them down. These are drawings of things.
Try to guess and match the drawings with their names.
- Number from 1 to 7 from left and right.
- Give feedback
- sparkling (adj): lấp lánh - creature (n): sinh vật - trace (n): dấu vết
- mineral (n): khoáng sản - precious (adj): quý, quý giá Listen and repeat
Read individually + 2 teams play
- Listen and work in pairs
Answer keys:
1) Mineral 2) Water 3) Mountains 4) Plants
5) Little creatures
c. Dialogue: p85
- Have students practice the dialogue between Nam and Hung on page 85.
- Call on some pairs of students to practice the dialogue.
- Correct their pronunciation.
- Have all students work in pairs to practice the dialogue.
d . Model sentences:
- Elicit from ss and give the model
- Explain the meanings, form and use
2. While- speaking: 16’
a. Picture drill
- guide ss to speak by using the drawings to drill
6) Gas
7) Gemstone
- Practice speaking the dilogue
- Listen, guess, repeat and copy There might be water in Mars
There may be a lot of precious stones on Mars.
May – might: có thể
* Form:
may/might + bare inf/ be…
* Use: We use may, might to talk about present or future possibility.
- Might is normally a little less sure than may.
- T-WC, half-half, open pairs, closed pairs.
* Exchange:
What’s this?
This may be water on Mars.
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b. Making dialogues:
- Have students make up similar dialogue about the drawings, using the cues in 3a.
- Call on some pairs of students to practice their dialogue before the class.
- Give feedback
3. Post –speaking: 13’
* Write it up
- Ask students to write the dialogues which
1. What are they?
They may be minerals on Mars 2. What are they?
They might be plants on Mars 3. What’s this?
This may be gas on Mars 4. What are they?
They may be gemstones on Mars.
5. What are they?
They may be little creatures
- Work in pairs
* Sample:
You: What do these drawings say?
Your friend: These may be mountains on Mars.
You: And what about the red signs on the left corner?
Your friend: Well, they might be gas on Mas
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- Work individually
they have practiced above IV. Summary: (1')
- Ask Ss to remind the lessson : talk about the things that might be on Mars.
V. Homework: (1')
- Be sure to revise the lesson. Prepare Unit 10 Lesson 3: listen
* Evaluation
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